Quote Originally Posted by Arohk View Post
Yes "The Illusion of Choiche" , Kaiten was never a Choice to use or not, it is a Mandatory Buff before every Iaijutsu,

Playstlye with Kaiten = always stay above 30 kenki
Playstlye without Kaiten = always stay above 10 kenki
On that I don't disagree, it removed one of the two kenki consumers that required to keep the gauge above a certain amount, and I personally dislike "keep your gauge above X at all times" as a gameplay loop (but that's just my personal taste). They did remove Dark Arts past SB for that exact same reason as it was used before literally everything back then, unlike in HW where you had to make choices (please DRK mains correct me if I'm wrong there, it's been a long time).
But the buttons still technically accounted a bit more than just "deals X damage" as it still interacted with the gauge and job resources. Else then you can also remove shinten, all resource spenders, everything...